Back in Janaury I mentioned that I’d met a puzzle I couldn’t solve … Google was indexing a lot of search results on Joomla sites. The problem appeared all on kinds of Joomla sites and with all kinds of URL extensions. I just couldn’t work out what where the bug was in Joomla. It turns out the bug was in Google.
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Earlier this week I posted my talk about Joomla SEO from the JoomlaExpo in Chicago. The penultimate slide was a list of sites that ranked #1 on Google and some people responding with details of their own success with Joomla. I’m going to be giving variations of this presentation a few more times in months to come and so I thought I’d give you an opportunity to boast: Do you have a Joomla site with great rankings? Feel free to post as many or as few details about the site as you wish. I’ll include the best ones in the…
This is my presentation on Joomla SEO from JoomlaExpo. Increasingly we’re going to be recommending two SEO solutions for both Joomla 1.0 and Joomla 1.5 … sh404SEF and the SEF Patch. I’m in the process of rewriting the SEO Book to make those our clear recommendations for most 1.0 and 1.5 sites, but this is the first time I’ve explained that publicly.
I arrived back from Chicago just before midnight yesterday and I’m still buzzing today. The JoomlaExpo was a huge success. I’ve a whole bunch of stuff to organize and post over the coming week from Powerpoints, handouts, Expo recaps and news of the big Joomla project that was announced with the City of Chicago. There were over 280 people at the Expo including some from Malaysia, Costa Rica, the Netherlands, England, Scotland and many other places. The whole event was pulled together by excellent organization from the JoomlaChicago members. Click here and also here to see photos of the event.…
Note: Please be aware that this post contains some disturbing quotes to make its point. What on earth is wrong with the Washington Post. The Washington Post is one of the oldest newspapers in the U.S. and one of the most important because it’s read by D.C.’s powerbrokers. It’s famous for numerous stories from the Spanish-American war to Watergate. The Post is allowing decades of its reputation to be destroyed online. Their site has already been in trouble for posting spurious chain-emails as facts, but it seems as if they’re sinking even lower at the moment.
The coincidence was too great to ignore … this must be the weekend for lovable losers. My hometown football / soccer team of Portsmouth have the chance to win their first competition for 57 years. I’m also going to be in Chicago for the JoomlaExpo. If you’re not American or a baseball fan, the Chicago Cubs are famous for being biggest losers in U.S. sports history. This is their 100th year without winning the World Series. Close behind were the Chicago White Sox who recently ended their drought after a mere 88 years. Portsmouth haven’t made it a century of…
We’ve posted a few times about Group Jive, the only component available for Joomla that allows site members to create their own social networking groups. I’ve called it a vital extension if Joomla hopes to compete as a social networking platform, but the project has had a checkered history and unfortunately it seems that its stumbling again. They’re on MicroPledge.com looking for donations to help make the component work natively on Joomla 1.5. Rocketwerx recently did something very similar and raised over $2500 towards finishing their Joomla 1.5 and phpBB3 Bridge. That caused a mixed reaction from members of their…
What are Internal Links? Internal links to your site are the links that reside on pages that belong to your domain. So links to subdomain and subfolders also count. Why Do This Automatically? If you have a lot of content on your site it can be hard for search engines to work out which page is most relevant for a particular search term. You can help them by automatically linking from a keyphrase to a highly relevant page for that topic. For example, whenever I type sh404SEF it automatically links to our review of that extension. The review is #5…
We’re delighted to announce that our first Joomla training class will be on Saturday June 21st in Alpharetta, Georgia. The training will be in Alpharetta, just a few miles north of Atlanta from 9 am to 4 pm. We’ve chosen Roam as the location as it offers high-tech, comfortable meeting rooms equipped with wireless internet access, whiteboards, projectors. Because this is the first class we aim to make it extra special. We’re limiting registration to 10 students and are providing a wide-range of extra gifts.